Barassi is an absolute legend. Tim, did you know he made players write essays if they had under-performed on the field?

There is a story that when he went to Carlton, there was a lady who complained that she had called her pet bird Barassi and had trained the bird to say something like carn the demons. I’m not sure what ended up happening to the bird.

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